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Shovel-Ready Clean Coal Power Generation Technology for CO2 Capture

A merger of the commercially available Pressurized Fluidized Bed Combustion (PFBC) Boiler technology and the Benfield CO2 capture technology, which each have over 20 years of successful commercial operation.

PFBC

  • PFBC-EET has the license and the design ready for the PFBC technology
  • Commercial available equipment
  • Demonstrated high-cycle and combustion efficiency even at smaller sizes (over 40% cycle efficiency for 100 MW possible)
  • Demonstrated fuel flexibility; waste coal, high-moisture coal, biomass, petcoke and more
  • Compact size suitable for retrofit applications
  • Meets present environmental requirements with minimal air pollution control equipment
  • Demonstrated environmentally-friendly, commercially-usable ash (for concrete, etc.)
  • Demonstrated quick start-up suitable for peaking applications (1 hour from 0 to 100% load from hot condition)

Benfield CO2 Capture Process

  • Well proven CO2 absorption process with potassium carbonate
  • Commercially available equipment
  • UOP, a Honeywell Company, has the license for the Benfield process and is ready to design the commercial unit for the PFBC application with performance guarantees
  • The high partial pressure produces optimal conditions for capture and absorption of CO2 of high purity (99%+)

PFBC and Benfield Technology Merger

  • PFBC-EET has an interface design ready for the merger of the two processes
  • PFBC-EET owns a PFBC Process Test Facility (PTF) where the PFBC/CO2 capture process combination has been demonstrated with biomass for a negative carbon footprint
  • PFBC-EET has developed the process application of combining the Alstom PFBC technology with the Honeywell/UOP/Benfield CO2 capture technology